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H.I.T // Between Episodes Club

Today I am here to bring you the review on the drama “H.I.T”, that I watched together as a team with the Between Episodes Club.

We are group of people who watch old dramas with a specific genre and from a specific year together and then write reviews on it.

This time we decided on a drama from the years 2006/07 with the genre Action or Crime.

We voted and we watched the drama H.I.T together, our members answered some questions to the drama and I wrote a review.

Here we go !! :relaxed:

• General Information

Title: 히트 / H.I.T (Homicide Investigation Team)

Episodes: 20

Genre: Action & Investigation

Broadcast network: MBC

Broadcast period: 2007-Mar-19 to 2007-May-22

• Plot

The Homicide Investigation Team (H.I.T.) led by Cha Soo Kyung was established to investigate the case of a serial killer. The other four members were assigned from different precincts and when they first started, they all have their own ulterior motives and none of them was confortable with working as a team or trusted each other. Added to the mix, a rookie prosecutor Kim Jae Yoon was sent by the District Attorney’s Office to keep an eye on the police’s work. This drama depicts how cases were solved and how the members evolved into really working as a team.

Homicide Investigation is not the best drama ive watched but its ok. I found it slow paced and the first part of the drama was boring, however after the mystery intensifies, i became interested. I kept watching hoping the drama will improve, sadly it didnt improve that much. There were many unnecessary things happening and the drama doesn’t have a main focus, instead it kept mixing in various side plot that personally i think just drag the drama. The characters personality were overexaggerated, making their actions questionable. The only positive aspectof the drama, just to name one, is the relationship between the homicide investigation team. Also seeing how some actors looked like when they were young is a + too. Overall i rate the drama 5/10, its definitely not a drama i would recommend xD.

I think that the general effects were done well. I thought that the osts were good most of the time. Some osts I found to not really fit with the scenes therefore reduced the impact of some scenes. The osts played during moments when the main characters were travelling to a crime scene, to investigate places etc I found catchy af which I enjoyed because catchy osts help me get into a drama more. Overall, I thought the filming was great especially during the chase scenes.

As one of the earliest crime/ thriller drama, it was evident that the writers were inspired by American TV shows which strictly speaking is not a bad thing of course. Nevertheless on its own merits, H.I.T has enough korean elements to make it stand out. While it was a bit hard to get into the story and bond with the characters, it did become easier to watch once you get past the first few episodes. The main case (serial murder case) was actually really interesting as I was more curious to find out more about the killer than the back stories of the characters. :see_no_evil: In the end you just have to sit through the filler episodes. Overall with its ups and downs, H.I.T was an interesting show to watch. And if we consider the fact that its one of the earliest show in its genre, its worth to check out for all the crime/thriller fans.

All in all I can say, that there were a lot of characters and scenes, which could have been developed better, but I will only focus on the female lead Cha Soo Kyung (Ko Hyun Jung) and the male lead Kim Jae Yoon (Ha Jung Woo). For me Cha Soo Kyung made a lot of decisions, I could neither understand nor follow. She is a police officer, but her behaviour was rash, not conceived and sometimes even dangerous as well as life-threatening. Her character rarely showed any development and it was annoying and frustrating to watch her for 20 episodes. On the other hand, there is the male lead Kim Jae Yoon. At the beginning I kind of liked his character, but throughout the drama, I felt frustration towards him as well. He was a prosecutor, but somehow he never or let me say rarely did something a prosecutor would do. He was their to watch the homicide investigation team, which consisted of a lot of strange and sometimes even suspicious characters, but to be honest Kim Jae Yoon did nothing productive. There was no development in his character as well and his performance was hard to watch. As the main characters they were not interesting or intriguing. It would have been better, if their wouldn’t have been any romance and the characters as well as their occupation would have been taken more serious.

For scenes that could have been developed better, there were a lot as well. However I will only say, that some case shouldn’t went too long, like 5 to 6 episodes and the ending with the main “villain” shouldn’t have been rushed like this.

ʀᴀᴛɪɴɢ: 3/10

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Overall the drama was alright. I’m not saying I would recommend it, but it was okay. The first few episodes were just normal, they weren’t very dragging but they weren’t really making me want to binge watch the drama too. It then got a bit more interesting with the mysterious cases and with the serial murder case, but although it did improve, I hoped it would have gotten even better. Just like Neflit said, I think we all were hoping the drama would get better by time, but it didn’t, but that’s probably also why it wasn’t that hard to continue watching it, since we were all still thinking it might get better.

I think the producers of the drama were also trying to make the drama a bit more interesting by adding some random characters and some side plots, but in the end, I kind of had the feeling that those side plots were totally useless and just annoying and it made the drama like as if it was only made out of side plots and there wasn’t a real main plot.

So the plot wasn’t good, the chemistry wasn’t good in my opinion too. The chemistry wasn’t totally the worst, but I just expected much more and if the chemistry would have been just a little bit better, I think that would have made the drama much better, since then it would have probably also been much easier to relate to the characters and get into the drama.

I am only criticizing, I know. Anyway, there is something that I actually liked, the OSTs. The OSTs were pretty good, I personally liked them a lot. They didn’t fit to the scenes sometimes and were just pretty random ,but I still liked them. I especially liked the main song, sang by Super Junior :new_moon_with_face: . I am just biased :relieved: I know that too.

Anyway, how can the drama be good if everything else beside the OST was bad. To be honest, it wasn’t necessarily bad, it just could have been much better and that makes the drama okay.

ʀᴀᴛɪɴɢ: 6/10

That was my blog and our members opinions. Our club has only watched old Korean Dramas until now and recently we have been discussing, if we should try out other Asian dramas too and we decided we will now not only watch old Korean Dramas but try out other Asian Dramas like Taiwanese, Thai , Chinese, Japanese and so on.

For our next drama we will be watching a Thai-drama, we haven’t decided on which drama to watch yet but look forward to our next blog !!

Bye, Tania.

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Woah :astonished: :astonished: this was a great blog! I loved everyone’s opinion! :raised_hands: 🏻 :two_hearts: Even though I haven’t seen the drama I feel I understood very well all your ideas and why :grin: